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5 Stocks Driving The Financial Sector Higher

3. As of noon trading,
CME Group (
CME) is up $0.89 (1.46) to $61.65 on average volume Thus far, 664,064 shares of CME Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $60.46-$61.72 after having opened the day at $60.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $60.76.

CME Group Inc. operates the CME, CBOT, NYMEX COMEX, and KCBT futures exchanges worldwide. It operates CBOT exchange, a marketplace for trading agricultural and the U.S. CME Group has a market cap of $20.3 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 19.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate CME Group a buy, 3 analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates CME Group as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full
CME Group Ratings Report now.